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Jawher Moussa
Personal blog · jawher.meprogramming
Jawher Moussa's personal blog at jawher.me covers programming. Since 2014, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 4 times. The last post was in 2021, but the archive is still widely read.
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Why HN links it
Linked from a thread on parsing command line arguments with a finite state machine and backtracking. The post covers that parser design, and the thread compares it with the docopt and mow.cli libraries.
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Jawher Moussa's blog, in which he writes about technical stuff
What Hacker News says?
docopt() does few things and does them well: * parse the call arguments and split them into options and arguments * perform a very basic validation, i.e. handle the options which take a value and those who don't Granted, mow.cli is much more complex. But it also does much more: * Generate contextual help message * Enforce arbitrarily complex validation rules (see the cp example) in your stead, meaning less code (and…
Comment linking /2015/01/13/parsing-command-line-arguments-shameless-plug-mowcli/
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